Uploaded December 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Lecture by the President of the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), Cllr Parks Tau, at the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute, UNISA on 23 October 2018

Topic: “Migration and Urbanisation: Policy Implications for Local Governments”

His talk focused on three (3) interrelated areas:

• first, it sketches the broad implications of urbanisation and migration megatrends for local governance;

• second, it identifies existing and latent opportunities in the agglomeration of people, place and institutions; and

• third, it explores the benefits or drawbacks of a youth dividend and an urban dividend.